{"id":366,"date":"2025-01-02T03:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:17:41","slug":"ivory-coast-says-french-troops-to-leave-ivory-coast-after-decadesfrench-troops-to-leave-country-after-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/world\/ivory-coast-says-french-troops-to-leave-ivory-coast-after-decadesfrench-troops-to-leave-country-after-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"French troops to leave Ivory Coast after decades"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Ivory Coast has becoming the latest African nation to withdraw French troops from the country after a long military presence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year address to the nation that the 43rd BIMA marine infantry battalion at Port-Bouet in Abidjan \u2013 where French troops were stationed \u2013 \u201cwill be handed over\u201d to Ivory Coast\u2019s armed forces as of January 2025.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">In the speech, the President said \u201cWe can be proud of our army, whose modernization is now effective. It is in this context that we have decided on the concerted and organized withdrawal of French forces\u201d from Ivory Coast.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">France, whose colonial rule in West Africa ended in the 1960s, has nearly 1,000 soldiers in Ivory Coast, according to reports.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Ivory Coast is the latest West African nation to expel French troops after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. In November, within hours of each other, Senegal and Chad also announced the departure of French soldiers from their soil.<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast has becoming the latest African nation to withdraw French troops from the country after a long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}